News about special and protective equipment

In Poland, opponents of vaccination against coronavirus infection will be banned from wearing military uniforms. This was stated by the Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak on Twitter on Friday, August 6.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin may this week request permission from US President Joe Biden to oblige all military personnel on active duty to be vaccinated against COVID-19, CNN reports.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation from the first days of the creation of the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus infection took part in its development, said the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu, in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

The Deputy Prime Minister noted that under the leadership of Vladimir Lepin, the heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 and the remote mining engineering system "Agriculture"were started and brought to state tests.

The engineering systems of remote mining "Agriculture"were involved in the exercises in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

According to the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda", at the training ground in Mulino, a blocking mining unit of a conditional enemy was used for the first time, which fell into a kind of impenetrable"bag". The ISDM platoon with its salvo closed the passages that had previously been made in the barriers, forcing the enemy to raise the white flag.

A separate unit of the Pacific Fleet RCBZ, stationed in the Primorsky Territory, received a batch of five new TDA-3 thermal smoke machines for setting aerosol curtains.

As part of the demonstration program, an artillery crew was landed. One fighter on the Tandem-400 system delivered an 82-millimeter mortar to the destination, the other on a similar parachute-a gunner.

In recent weeks, due to the sharp aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan, the military states bordering this "hot spot" have conducted a series of unplanned military exercises. They involved a large number of various military equipment, including tanks.

Specialists of the concern" Radioelectronic Technologies "of the Rostec state Corporation have developed an installation capable of purifying the air in an airplane from all known viruses. The first presentation of the new system took place at MAKS-2021, as reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Planes from Russia and Ukraine are taking part in extinguishing forest fires in Turkey. This was announced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 30.

During the exercises in Siberia, the military personnel of the radiation, chemical and biological Protection (RCB) protection unit of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in the Altai Territory, concealed the movement of BUK-M3 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM).

Russian engineering units in Mulino (Nizhny Novgorod region) have worked out the skills of installing mixed minefields with promising means of constructing mine-explosive barriers. According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense, the universal minelayer UMZ-K "Tick"was used for the first time.

Units of the engineering troops for the first time practically used remote "blocking mining" during a special exercise at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the servicemen worked out joint actions of combined arms and engineering units to draw a conditional enemy and military equipment into a mined area with subsequent blocking and destruction.

Promising developments and advanced technologies in the field of robotics, as well as elements of military equipment for military personnel, are presented to experts and the scientific community at the site of the Military Innovative Technopolis "ERA".

T-72B with enhanced protection were seen during a combat readiness check in Uzbekistan. According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of this Central Asian state, the defense measures carried out determined the readiness of personnel and military equipment for high-quality performance of combat training tasks.

On Wednesday, July 28, at a special exercise in the Vladimir region, the engineering troops conducted a unique operation, the place of which is in the Guinness Book of Records.

For the first time in world practice, pontoon units equipped a double-width floating bridge. This crossing with a lifting capacity of 120 tons ensured the transfer of a large number of people and large-sized equipment across the Oka. Moreover, the traffic intensity on the temporary bridge was twice as high as the standard one.

As part of a special exercise in the Vladimir Region, military engineers transported the launch battery of the Yars mobile ground complex through the wide and deep-water Oka at this point. For the first time, a unique 360-ton double-width ferry was involved in the training, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

During a special exercise, the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation provided the transfer of the group on the Oka River section in the Vladimir region.

With the help of the introduction of this development, it will be possible to avoid scarring and the clouded layer of the cornea will become transparent, the Military Medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov noted

Military doctors will present the latest technology for restoring the cornea of the eye after a burn at the upcoming Army-2021 forum.

A series of unique special exercises of engineering units has started at the military training grounds of Russia and the Republic of Belarus. They will be held at ten training grounds of the two countries, as well as on the Oka River section. The exercises were organized in preparation for the joint strategic Russian-Belarusian exercise "West-2021".